Machine for crozing and howeling barrels



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

G. J. MILLER. I

MACHINE FOR OROZING AND HOWELING BARRELS.

No. 326,234 Peptented'Sept. 1 5, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE J. MILLER, OF LAKE VIEW, ASSIGNOR TO DANIEL V. RYAN, OF

CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR CROZING AND HOWELING BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,234. datedSeptember 15, 1885.

Application filed April 24, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE J. MILLER, of LakcView, Cook county,Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Machine for Leveling, Howeling,and Orozing Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to that class of howeling and crozing machines inwhich the barrel is revolved and the tools for doing the working off arebrought into contact with it while it is in motion.

The ob'j ect of the invention is to simplify the component parts of themachine and better their arrangement and combination therein; and itconsists in the combinations hereinafter described and claimed. I Theaccompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section. Fig. 3 is a perspective. Fig. 4 is a cross-verticalsection on line 00 m of Fig. 1. A is a low horizontal frame, made to befastened to the floor by screws or bolts. Two sup- 2 5 plemental frames,A, are supported on the horizontal frame and secured thereto by a tongueand groove, or otherwise,so as to slide back and forth thereon. Theupright part of the supplemental frames is made in halves a a, adaptedto be secured together by screw-bolts, and together form a circularopening within which the barrel-holding ring B is secured by a tongueand groove, 1), so'as to turn freely, a broad flange on the ringprojecting beyond the frame, so that a belt, B, may be trained uponit tooperate the ring.

The supplemental frames are connected by curved links 0 O and a cam, O,fastened to a rock-shaft, Ofiwhich is operated by a lever,D, 40 so thatby turning the lever in one direction the supplemental frames are drawntoward each other, and in the other are thrown apart. The curvature ofthe links, one being bowed up and the other down, is such with reference5 to the earn as to permit it to pass the center of motion when thelever is turned half around in the direction required to draw thesupplemental frames together, so that they will then resist any outwardstrainwithout anyprovision for holding the lever down.

A barrel-support, E, is connected to the horizontal frame,in the centerbetween the supplemental frames, by means of vertically-sliding barsF.adapted to operate in connection with cams F,attached to therock-shaft (3*, so that when the lever is thrown in the directionrequired to move the supplemental frames apart the cams F will strikethe bars F- and elevate the barrel-support, and when turned in theopposite direction will release them, and so lower the barrel-support.

The supplemental frames are each provided with a rock-shaft, G, to theinner end of which is secured an'upright lever, G, provided with aplate, H, which supports 'the howeling-tool h, the chamfering-tool h,and the crozing-tool h, and the lower end of the lever has a branch, Gwhich carries the leveling-knife h The movement of the lever G isregulated by a bifurcated arm, I, fastened to the rockshaft, one branchof which arm extends below and the other above the supplemental frame,and each has a set-screw, 2', for the point of contact with the frame inthe movement of the arm,which limits its movement up and down, and thusdefines the movement of the rock-shaft and the lever G. By setting thescrews in or out the extent to which the lever may be reciprocated isdecreased or increased as desired.

Forthe purpose of keeping the lever G upright when released, or'not inuse,aweight, W, is suspended below the r0ck-shaft on a short arm, a,fastened rigidly to the shaft. 8 5

The operation of the machine is as follows: The operator, standingfacing the machine on the side having the lever D, in the position shownin Fig. 3, turns the lever to the righthand side. This throws theholding-rings BB 0 apart sufficiently to admit a barrel to be rolledbetween the belt-flanges, and also elevates the barrel'support betweenthem, so that it will support the barrel with its axis substantially inline with the axis of the holding-rings. 5 The horizontal frame or bedbeing low down, the barrel may be readily turned over on to the support,without lifting, and placed with the ends coincident wit-h the rings.When in this position, the lever D is turned over rco to the left. Thisbrings the flanges of the rings over the ends of the barrel and causesthem to enter and be clamped in the rings. This movement of the leveralso lowers the barrel-support, so that the barrel is now held by therings and free to turn with them. The barrel projects through the ringsat each end suflicient to extend across the'path of the leveling-tool,so that all irregularity of the staves will be cut off even or level bysaid tool. The leveling and chamfering tools are so timed or arrangedwith reference to each other that the former, as lever G is moved towardthe operator, will be brought-into contact with the outside of the stavebefore or nearly simultaneously with the contact of the latter on theinside, so that the surplus ends of the staves will be leveled or cutofl from both sides instead of one, and thus all burring of the edge+such as usually results from cutting the stave off from one side or withone toolis prevented and a smooth edge formed. The howelingtool is alsobrought into operation by this movement of the lever G in the directionindicated, and continues to operate until the lowermost branch of thebifurcated arm comes in contact with the frame of the machine. Theleveling and howeling of the barrel will then be completed at one endand the lever is then moved in the opposite direction to bring thecrozing-tool into action and cut the croze. The same operation isrepeated at the other end, and the worked-01f barrel is then taken outof the machine.

During the operation of working oil the barrel is revolved rapidly bymeans of the belts B B on the ring-flanges, passing overoperating-pulleys above, arranged in any of the ordinary ways to bestopped or set in motion by a friction-elutch operated by a leversuspended within reach of the operator.

The interior orifice of the holding-rings corresponds in size ordiameter with the end of the barrel above the end truss-hoops, so thatthe truss-hoop will come against the side of the ring and prevent thebarrel going through any farther, and the orifice through the beltflangeis made large enough to readily allow the truss hoops' to pass throughto the ring.

For smaller barrels other sets of rings with correspondingly smallerorifices are substituted for those used for the largest size. Themachine is in this way adapted to about three or four sizes of barrels.For still smaller sizes or kegs a smaller-size machine is preferred.

What is claimed is 1. In ahoweling and crozing machine, a low horizontalframe provided with a sliding frame at each end carrying thebarrel-holding rings provided with belt-flanges and a vertically-Inovable barrel-support, said sliding frames and barrel-support beingconnected with cams on a rock-shaft arrangedv to operate the slidingframes and barrel-support simultaneously, substantially as specified.

2. In a howeling and crozing machine, two

sliding frames for supporting the barrel-holding rings, arranged toslide toward and from each other, and a barrel-supporting frame arrangedbetween the holding-rings and being movable vertically, in combinationwith a rock-shaft provided with a cam and links connecting with saidsliding frames, and one or more cams, as F, connecting said rock-shaftwith and thereby operating the barrel-supporting frame, allsubstantially as shown.

3. I11 a howeling and crozing machine, the howeling, chamfering,andcrozin g tools mounted on a plate, H, attached to an oscillatinglever, G, and the leveling-knife h on an arm of said lever, said leverbeing supported in front of the barrel-holding ring, so as to bring andoscillate the plate transversely of the barrel and within its end whenplaced in the ring, and the leveling-knife just outside the barrel nearthe face of the ring, substantially as specified.

g 4. In a howeling and crozing machine, the howeling, chamfering, andcrozing tools mounted on a plate, H, attached to a lever, G, and

the leveling-knife h on an arm of said lever,

said lever being supported in front of the barrel-holding ring on arock-shaft, so as to bring and oscillate the plate transversely of thebarrel and within its end when placed in the ring, and theleveling-knife just outside the barrel and near the face of the ring,said rockshaft being provided with a bifurcated arm, I,

and weight W, as and for the purpose specified.

'5. In a howeling and crozing machine, the barrel-clamping framesconnected to a rockshaft, as O, by links 0, hinged to the opposite endof an S-shaped cam on the rock-shaft,

said links at the ends next to the cam being.

curved in opposite directions, so that the extreme ends or points ofconnection with the cam may be turned past the center of motion, as andfor the purpose specified. i GEORGE J. MILLER. Witnesses:

JNo. H. WHIPPLE, DANIEL W. RYAN.

